Harris v. Britton’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 144
Relies on United States v. Grinnell Corp. · Berger v. United States · Ex parte American Steel Barrel Co. · In re Union Leader Corp. · Anna Knoll and Rose Keller v. Socony Mobil Oil Company, Inc., a Corporation
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““To sustain disqualification the bias and prejudice must arise from an ‘extrajudicial source’ and result in an opinion ‘on some basis other than what the judge learned from his participation in the case.’ United States v. Grinnell Corp., 384 U.S. 563, 583 , 86 S.Ct. 1698, 1710 , 16 L.Ed.2d 778 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““There is as much an obligation upon a judge not to recuse himself when there is no occasion as there is for him to do so when there is.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.